WHO BEGAN THE WAR?

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 29 November 1924, Page 16

WHO BEGAN THE WAR?

M. POINCARE BLAMED A PARIS SENSATION.. 1 LONDON, Nov. 14, “M. Poincare was partly the cause of tiie war. M. Poincare’s Presidency was fatal.”- .The publication in Pans Or these passages from the private diary of M. George Louis, the former French Ambassador to Russia, has caused a political sensation, and excited all France, ,

The accusation against M. Poincare is put in the mouths of M, Pichon, the former Foreign Minister, and M. Jules Gambon, the former Ambassador to Germany. M. Gambon told M. Louis that the Kaiser, in 1913, remarked: “I have done everything to arrive at a regime, of good relations; but it is all over.” M. Gambon added that Poincare was partly the cause of the war, to which M. Louis replied, “Yes, with the Russian Ambassador at Paris, M. Isvolsky, whose tool he was.”

M. Poincare promises to publish letters by M. Pichon and M. Cambon repudiating the diary.

All the names mentioned in the, cable are those of the best known of tlie big men in French politics. M. Poincare was President for the whole period of the war, holding the office - from 19L3 till 1920. He resigned from the Presidency ‘to resume a- more '’ct.ive pnrtieioation ill unities, and he became Premier again in 1922. At the last elections bis party was defeated. atkl M Herriot, the Socialist leader, took, office.